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by perchard 6d ago
second sentence of the article: "Just because the code is formally correct doesn’t mean that it is not introducing unnecessary abstractions, creating duplicates, or just making bad decisions overall. This is not a groundbreaking observ
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by perchard 11mo ago
I wouldn’t expect nuanced takes on typography from HN. As a long time user the comments are entirely expected - and actually skew more positive than I would have guessed. Respectfully.
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by perchard 2y ago
perhaps Y is harder to solve than you are assuming
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by perchard 2y ago
check out SnoreLab ( https://www.snorelab.com/ ), i've used it and can recommend it
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by perchard 3y ago
Elegantly alludes to the way in which LLMs are constrained to our existing body of knowledge.
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by perchard 3y ago
“Ian pointed out that whereas our culture openly invites us to be aware of birds and historic churches, it places no comparable emphasis on pylons, despite the fact that that they often rival, for ingenuity and beauty, many of the more esta
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by perchard 3y ago
there is a theory along these lines. something like: the defense against the unconscious is so strong in autism that the person becomes rigid and shut off. the defense against the unconscious is so weak in schizophrenia that the person is o
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by perchard 5y ago
Whenever you’re called on to make up your mind, and you’re hampered by not having any, best way to solve the dilemma, you’ll find, is simply by spinning a penny. No—not so that chance shall decide the affair
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by perchard 5y ago
Although this doesn't turn off animations completely, you might be interested in the 'reduce motion' preference: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202655
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by perchard 6y ago
Just my interpretation (of the Pascal quote), beginning with the full quote. > When I have occasionally set myself to consider the different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose themselves at court or in war, wh
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by perchard 6y ago
A Synology NAS + https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/feature/active_backup_g_s... is an easy way to back up mail and drive.
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by perchard 6y ago
i found the following useful when i was getting started: https://www.amazon.com/How-Take-Smart-Notes-Nonfiction-ebook... https://zettelkasten.de/posts/overview/ https://luhmann.surge.sh
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by perchard 6y ago
this is awesome! i see the 'zettelkasten link fixer' in the markdown format importer ("Fixes [[UID]] links to full [[UID File Name]].") - any plans/thoughts on just supporting [[UID]]? this seems less brittle to me
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by perchard 6y ago
Roam is awesome but this and other reference management software serves a different purpose (for me, at least). I use BibDesk (like Zotero and other examples mentioned here) in conjunction with a plaintext (markdown) Zettelkasten[0]. BibDes
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by perchard 6y ago
Thanks for your productive contribution to the discussion
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by perchard 7y ago
for: https://www.amazon.com/SuperBetter-Living-Gamefully-Jane-McG... https://tim.blog/2015/07/28/jane-mcgonigal/ against: https://mental.jmir.org/2019/6/e13717&
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by perchard 7y ago
Not made for storing 'all the facts [of our] lives' - but an interesting example of a robust physical system for knowledge organization is Niklas Luhman's Zettelkasten Method[1]. It translates well to a digital medium. The ge
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by perchard 7y ago
Figma's recently released Autolayout is somewhat analogous: https://www.figma.com/blog/announcing-auto-layout/ You can deeply nest Autolayout frames.
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by perchard 7y ago
Also check out Sky Guide[0]. It's an iOS app that (among many other awesome things) tracks 250+ satellites - and can send a notification before they pass over your location[1]. [0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app&#x2
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by perchard 7y ago
Context: https://design.lyft.com/re-approaching-color-9e604ba22c88
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by perchard 7y ago
It has this. For example, the default 0 value: 19.32b (on black) 1.09w (on white)
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by perchard 7y ago
I enjoyed TFS but tend to agree with this review: > Thinking Fast and Slow is my runner-up for “book most overrated by investors” (with Klarman’s Margin of Safety the champion.) People who pitch this book as “required reading” simply ha
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by perchard 7y ago
Awesome. It looks like the scale model discussed in the video is free to visit at the Bay Model Visitor Center in Sausilito.
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by perchard 7y ago
"The dirty secret: We’re all just building CRUD apps." https://twitter.com/iamdevloper/status/455409190505562112
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by perchard 8y ago
Type designers are not faceless corporations. They are mostly individual designers who invest incredible amounts of time and energy into what they make.
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by perchard 8y ago
usa PHP, this is false. > Like to get a font to use in your app, you need to pay $5,000+ for any decent looking font. There are many high quality open source fonts available. For example: https://github.com/IBM/plex
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by perchard 8y ago
This is enabling the piracy of typefaces. It takes significant skill and time to create a typeface, and creators should be paid for their work. Instead of pirating typefaces, please see: https://fontstand.com/ https:/
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by perchard 8y ago
"Anyone can contribute to make a Standard Ebook better for everyone!" https://standardebooks.org/contribute/ Improve it then.
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by perchard 8y ago
> Income/wealth inequality always happens and probably always will - it's trivially easy to show how this happens using game theory even if trade is relatively fair. Do you have a reference for this? Interested to read more (ga
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by perchard 9y ago
a spectacular failure

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